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New Delhi, (PTI), Jan. 15: Bouyed by the progress in their peace talks with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and other leaders, major Naga insurgent group NSCN(I-M) leaders will hold two days of parleys with top government officials beginning January 20 and extend their stay here by at least...

Washington, (PTI), Jan. 15: A US-based non-governmental rights group has charged the authorities in Gujarat with embarking upon "a cover-up of their own rule and that of the Sangh Parivar in the attacks against Muslims."
"While numerous police reports filed by eyewitnesses specifically named loc...

Jaffna, Sri Lanka, (AP), Jan. 15: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels will upgrade their radio broadcasts, reaching a wider area with more programs, to educate Tamils about ongoing peace talks, officials said Wednesday.
The Voice of Tigers will expand its services using a newly opened broadcast station...

By Dilip Ganguly, Associated Press Writer
Colombo, Sri Lanka, (AP), Jan. 15: At least six people, including five children, were killed in Sri Lanka Wednesday when they tried to open an abandoned package that contained explosives, police said.
It was not immediately clear whether the explosion was...

by Shamindra Ferdinando
The Island: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday discussed a range of issues including the re-settlement of people in High Security Zones (HSZs) in the Jaffna peninsula and ways and means of running north-east local bodies when their life-term ends next month, wi...

Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand, emphasized that the UNHCR attempts to maintain the highest moral and ethical standard in its work.
Jahanshah Assadi the Regional Representative of the UNHCR categorically refuted the allegations that his offi...

Colombo, Jan. 15: "I can sack the Prime Minister by issuing just one letter. He and his entire cabinet will have to go. If I do that and I know that the entire world will support my decision," said Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the President of Sri Lanka.
She furtherer elaborate, “I will not...

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Iraq's foreign minister Naji Sabri said that "Iraq is ready to answer any questions by top UN weapons inspectors when they come here next week, but insisted a 12,000-page arms report submitted to the united nations last month was comprehensive," INA reported today.
He dismissed "Washington's assert...

New York, Jan. 15: uman Rights Watch today deplored Iran’s
closure of two leading independent newspapers on Saturday and called on the authorities to permit them to reopen without delay.
"Iran’s remaining independent press has been a key public forum, such as the public debate about parliament’s ef...

Bodh Gaya (Bihar), (PTI), Jan 16: Describing war as an organised and legalised form of violence, Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, today disfavoured "thrusting" war on Iraq as it would only lead to destruction.
The Dalai Lama, who is here for the ongoing Kalchakra puja, called war an org...

By Syed Zarir Hussain, Indo-Asian News Service
Guwahati, Jan. 16, (IANS): Indian troops were put on high alert in the northeastern state of Manipur after a powerful pressure group threatened to launch a secessionist movement Thursday night.
"We have put security forces on maximum alert. Emotions ar...

Following in California's footsteps, New Jersey legislators are poised to approve a bill that would allow embryonic stem-cell research.
The move, reported Monday in The New York Times, would be a symbolic stamp of approval on the controversial research that could lead to treatments for diseases su...

On January 15, (Today) Refugees International would initiate a program called "Forgotten People."
Each month Refugee International an American based refugee organization intends tol spotlight a humanitarian crisis that has been forgotten or neglected by the international community.
According to t...

Washington, D.C., Jan. 14: Global support for the war on
terrorism is diminishing partly because the United States too often
neglects human rights in its conduct of the war, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2003.
Terrorists violate basic human rights principles because t...

Human Rights Watch released its World Report 2003. Herewith the full text of the World Report 2003 on Burma is given.
With the release of opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in May after nineteen months of de facto house arrest, hope arose that the military junta might take steps to improve it...

Bangkok, Jan 15 (TNA): - People will celebrate the Songkran Festival, or traditional Thai New Year, next year with a new gift--the long-awaited mass underground train system, according to radio and T.V. news reports.
The cabinet, at its weekly meeting here yesterday, was informed by the Ministry of...

Bangkok, Jan. 15: A poem widely-circulated on the Internet titled "Winner versus Loser" impressed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra so much he had it reprinted on metal plates and handed them out to people as New Year souvenirs.
Certain government officials who received the gift, which carries a t...

Refugees from Burma are discriminated. Allegations of this nature are surfacing about the regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand.
It has been, brought to the notice that the regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ban...